Dive into the demographic and economic forces reshaping Minnesota's engineering industry. This data-driven discussion moves past anecdote to examine what is actually changing in the labor force, and what those shifts mean for hiring, retention, and firm strategy.
Breakfast and conversation with peers from firms across the state round out the morning.
Megan Dayton is the CEO of ACEC Minnesota and a demographer by training. She spent nearly fifteen years at the Minnesota State Demographic Center producing the population, migration, and labor force projections used by state agencies and the Legislature for long-range planning. Her work tracked the demographic shifts now reshaping engineering: an aging workforce moving toward retirement, slower replacement at the entry level, and uneven geographic distribution of technical talent across the state. Dayton holds a PhD in organizational psychology, an MBA, a master’s degree in applied demography from the Florida State University, and a public leadership credential from the Harvard Kennedy School. While her career has spanned multiple states and international settings, Minnesota is her home and where she has built the majority of her professional life.
$55 (all attendees)